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Play On With Rami

BY RACHEL ADAMS I first met Mohamad Fahmy (aka Mofa, aka Ganzeer) in 2011 as he was developing a major city-wide mural project in Cairo, depicting large-scale portraits of those killed during the revolution. Described by The Guardian as “the major player in a flourishing counter culture art scene”, he was looking for “the right wall” on which to paint the face of a friend. Some of those portraits still watch over the city, in cheerful reds and yellows, tricking the eye into lingering longer on what are actually haunting visual reminders of a very recent past. Since then, as…